Improvement in corn-planters



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GEORGE BQLYNCH, OF DARLINGTON, IND., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOHENRY C. HULET AND WALTER F. HULET, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-"PLAN'II'ERS Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 193,527, dated July 24, 1877; application filed April 28,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. LYNCH, of Darlington, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part ot' this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal verticalsectional view of my corn-planter, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of thesame.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a corn planter, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

A represents the frame of the planter, mounted, near its rear end, on anaxle, B, to which the three wheels C are securely fastened, at equaldistances apart, and on straight lines behind the three hoppers D, saidhoppers being fastened on a platform, E, near the front end of the frameA.

The tongue of the planter is tol be attached to the front of thisplatform under the center hopper, and passes between two uprightperforated plates, b b, fastened on the front crossba-r of the frame A,between which plates the tongue may be adjusted up and down by means ofa pin, a, passing through said perforated plates.

Each hopper D is provided with a dropping-slide, D1, and the threeslides are connected at their rear ends by a cross-bar, D2. Thiscross-bar is, by two rods, d d, connected with arms e e, projectingupward from a rocking bar or roller, G, mounted in the side pieces ofthe frame a suitable distance in front ot the axle B. v

On this rocking bar G is an arm, G1, laterally moving in' the recess uof the rocking bar G, and provided with a f perforation, through whichthe staple o passes, which ex, tends longitudinally over the recess, andon which the arm G1 slides, the latter being connected by la rod, f,with a lever, G2, pivoted to the standard S, attached to the rocking barG, by means lof which lever G2 the arm G1 can be moved laterally in andout of gear with cams h h, secured to the sideof a disk or wheel, H,placed loosely on the axle B, and

connected thereto by a pawl, z', and ratchetl wheel I, as shown.

When the machine moves forward, this disk or wheel H revolves with theaxle, and as each cam h strikes the arm G1, it turns the rocking bar G,so as to move the droppingslides Dl rearward; and as soon as the campasses from off said arm, the rocking bar and slides are returned totheir former position by a spring, J, connected to an arm, K, projectingfrom said rocking bar by a rod, fm.

The arm G1 may be moved out of gear by the lever G2, so as to set thedropping mechanism to drop in regular rows both ways. By thisarrangement the arm G2 may also be employed in moving the seed-slides byhand.

This invention may be applied to two-row planters as well as tothree-row planters, and the dropping mechanism` may be applied to manyof the planters now in use.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The rock-bar G, provided with the recess n, staple o, and standard S,in combination with the sliding arm G1, lever G2, and disk H, providedwith the cams h, substantially as described, and for the purpose setforth.

2. The recessed rock-bar G, having the standard S, staple o, and arm K,in combination with the sliding arm G1, disk H, having cams h, spring J,connecting-bar D2, and slides Dl, substantially as described, and forthe purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above 1 have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE BELL LYNCH.

Witnesses:

W. E. WHEELER, I. H. BUTLER.

